2023 Crop Progress

Guys I work for are starting custom floating today. The urea is all coated.

No progress as far as harvest goes, but at least we’ve got all the oats off the ground and dried. Should have the barley all off the ground and dried tomorrow but have to haul it to another yard. Now just all the wheat to dry, at least some of its in a bin , just have to haul home and dry then haul back, and a couple piles to clean up. Still lots of crops out in the area, looks like the standing wheat is going down, straw is maybe starting to rot? Forecast isn’t good for another week out, who knows after that. Getting late enough that our magic number for taking the canola off will start going up by the day, it’s set at 12% as of now.

Same thing over here in the rrv. They are booked solid . It’s really catching on here. Although I still think comparing my yields with spring applied 82-0-0 they are better. But I get why some guy do it , to save time in the spring. In regards to saving money , that’s debatable! We flood a lot in the spring so it’s risky . I don’t feel I am wasting time hooking up a nh3 cart in the spring . My employee drives right up to the back of the tank and hardly have to use much winch cable .
With grain prices dropping perhaps fertilizer may offer up some deals in the new year?!

Not really interested in running two machines, no manpower to run it, maybe in a few years when my kids and brothers kids are old enough to run one, don’t feel like dealing with the hassle of hired help. We’re at an awkward size, not really enough land for two machines but getting close to the limit for one, but like most people, on a good year we could handle twice the acres, on a tough year wish we had half.

So let me see, you’ll come to run a combine, not a peep when I offered you a job cleaning up grain piles?? lol

Didn’t think we’d be combining today, was foggy this morning and a bit of mist. Thought we go get everything ready to go, working at our south farm, left dad nursing the dryer. Sun almost poked out for a second so thought we’d try a test, had to call the kid on call at the elevator because they were closed thinking nobody was going to try today, I spoiled his afternoon off! lol testing 10.9 so good enough for me. Don’t know if anyone else is going, friend at home tried swathed canola and it was 12.3.

Slowly getting it chewed off, canola was 13.9 at around 1 o’clock when we started, luckily we are working away from home right now, combined yesterday, it almost came dry but people around home was still testing 14-15, sun never shone at home until 2 in the afternoon, days are sure getting short. At least we’re pretty much done the worst of or land if it decides to snow, had this land get canola flattened by snow a few years ago, couldn’t find much worse land to try straight cutting an inch off the ground, 30-40 acres was a good day.